{"id":91087,"date":"2020-09-07T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91087"},"modified":"2020-09-07T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:54:25","slug":"malaysia-sees-a-jump-in-covid-19-infections-with-62-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91087","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia sees a jump in COVID-19 infections with 62 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia recorded a big jump in new COVID-19 positive cases to 62 cases today compared with only six cases reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 62 new cases, 56 were local transmissions involving 30 Malaysians and 26 foreigners while only six were imported cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elaborating on the 56 cases of local transmission, he said that 50 cases were from Benteng LD cluster with one case of severe acute respiratory infection&nbsp;(SARI) detected at Lahad Datu Hospital, Sabah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from that, four local transmissions detected in Kedah involving the Sungai cluster (two cases), the Telaga cluster screening (one case); and symptomatic screening at a dental clinic in Alor Setar (one case) as well as another case reported in Penang involving a close contact screening case related to case 9397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest developments bring the total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Malaysia to 9,459 cases with active cases with infectivity standing at 207, he said in a statement on the development of COVID-19, here today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia recorded a big jump in new COVID-19 positive cases to 62 cases today compared with only six cases reported yesterday. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 62 new cases, 56 were local transmissions involving 30 Malaysians and 26 foreigners while only six were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":88463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}